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Plato to Aristodorus wishes well-doing.
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I hear that you now are and always have been one of
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Dion
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’s most intimate companions, since of all who pursue philosophy you exhibit the most philosophic disposition; for steadfastness, trustiness, and sincerity—these I affirm to be the genuine philosophy, but as to all other forms of science and cleverness which tend in other directions, I shall, I believe, be giving them their right names if I dub them
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parlor-tricks.
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So farewell, and continue in the same disposition in which you are continuing now.